Kalpana Kotagal
Kalpana Kotagal joined the firm as an associate in November, 2006 and is a member of the Antitrust practice group. Ms. Kotagal represents Registered Nurses employed by hospitals in Albany, Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, and San Antonio in lawsuits alleging that their employers unlawfully fixed their wages in violation of federal antitrust laws.
Before attending law school, Ms. Kotagal worked in the environmental community as Assistant National Field Director of the United States Public Interest Research Group, running national legislative campaigns on energy and environmental issues, and as an organizer with Green Corps. In 2006, she served as an advisor to a Congressional candidate. Ms. Kotagal is an honorary chair of the National Finance Committee of Young Lawyers for Obama.
While in law school, Ms. Kotagal was a summer associate at Cohen Milstein and served as law clerk in the Chambers of the Honorable J. Curtis Joyner, Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She was also involved in litigation under the Alien Tort Claims Act and RICO on behalf of Haider Mushin Saleh against contractors CACI and Titan for human rights abuses in Abu Ghraib prison. She served on the Editorial Board of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review as an Articles Editor.
Following law school, Ms. Kotagal clerked for the Honorable Betty Binns Fletcher, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Ms. Kotagal received her undergraduate degree from Stanford University (A.B., economics, B.S., earth systems, with honors, 1999) and was a Morris K. Udall Scholar. She received her law degree from the University of Pennsylvania (2005, cum laude), where she was a James Wilson Fellow.
Ms. Kotagal is the co-author, with Michael Hausfeld and Charles Tompkins, of "Innovation, Economics and the Law: The Health Care Industry’s Exposure to Antitrust Liability," to be published by the ABA Antitrust Law Section in 2007.
Ms. Kotagal is admitted to practice in New York and the District of Columbia.
Contact: kkotagal@cohenmilstein.com
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